mandatory reassessment

Definitely an ESA50 and the advisor who has been helping and will go to tribunal with him asked for confirmation on this when she phoned them this morning and said they checked with a decision maker and came back saying ESA50 had to be submitted and our concern well one of our concerns is that this lady has always been excellent and we are relying on her to attend tribunal and if we phone DWP now we risk challenging her judgement and upsetting her.But it is totally confusing and I could not understand why she was accepting it but she just said best submit ESA50 and she she has downloaded one because DWP said they would send one in post one had apparently been sent out in April I think but she said quicker to download a copy than wait for post-and we are collecting from her office tomorrow and fill it in with the same info we put in original one but put in comments page that we are only submitting it to comply with request and ensure claim is reinstated.She said main thing is to get Iain his benefit back.We are meant to hand ESA50 back into her and she will take to local Job Centre on Wednesday for them to scan through.

Our advisor seems to think problem is because he was on SDA and this is such old benefit and has never been on ESA so when they have been asked to put him on basic ESA during appeal this has caused confusion although he got Job seekers allowance for couple weeks during MR and trouble seems to have started after that when claim made for basic ESA once tribunal appeal confirmed. but my worry is that if we fill in a new ESA50 with the old info that was put on original one about last november I think could this have an impact on him in the future and surely info on ESA50 has to be current.Oh I do not know.I thought with tribunal date set and our submission all done we were nearing end of at least one road and then this! But do you have any advice on whether it is ok to hand in a new ESA50 with the same info as original one and just putting the comment at end about this is being done to comply with DWP request to ensure claim is reinstated..And I would add that my son got letter from them about filling in new ESA50 or his money stopped about 12 April but he did not tell me so when they did not get ESA50 they wrote to say money stopped and claim closed.He just thought it must be a mistake how can I need to fill in another ESA50 and of course he should have told me but then that is one of the reasons he needs this benefit!Anyway as usual I have rambled on sorry.

Yes he was found fit for work after face to face assessment on 16 Jan this year and we have taken it to appeal right through to tribunal which we have date for on 5 July

I think your comment that they may not have record for him online may be true especially since he was never on ESA and was on an old benefit SDA so based on that sending off a new ESA50 but with the same info as original one sent few months ago may help jog their memory of him.All very odd but hopefully will work itself out.Thanks